We Have Arrived!

Welcome to my blogspot for my Motherland Expedition... no Suj. Not Ethiopia. But thanx for taking note of my naturally dark pigments and my lanky long limbs. I hope to keep people entertained during Winter Break with pictures, videos, and personal reflections of my time here =] This is pretty much like my first time here since the last time I was here I was only 3 years old and I came for a funeral... My goal is to blog every other day if not everyday... but it really depends on whether or not I have internet access... but those chances are high because my mom is addicted to farmville and she'll need to take care of her crops.

So I've only been here (Makati, which is about 20 minutes away from Manilla) for about maybe 2 hours... so I don't have much to say about the whereabouts here as much. So I'll say what I can!

The Flight:

Long ass flight. 14 hours to Taipei and then another 3 hours to Manilla. During the first flight I sat next to a very cute baby, and she continued to be cute even during those times she'd start screaming on the top of her lungs for not particular reason. But yeah, long ass flight. I slept most of it... read and bejeweled for a part of it.

Stopping in Taipei was cool. I got a milk tea that cost me 3 dollars!... but it was damn flavorful. Our gap was only an hour and a half, and by the time we got to our gate we pretty much only had half an hour to explore the airport...

I ate 3 meals on an airplane... which made me feel pretty bloated by the end. The last one I felt like I was being force fed... I just didn't see the point in eating if I hadn't been expelling any energy...

The Arrival:

So every time a plane starts to land I have an anxiety attack. Yup. I start sweating, feeling nauseous, and when the plan starts to hit the ground I start to hyper ventilate. Besides that though it was pretty exciting being here. The whole way to the hotel that we're staying at I just kept looking around at everything... it was like watching a filipino movie... but actually being in it! The driver got lost, but I don't blame him with the way people drive here... I was scared for my life... and for those of you who have been in a car with me driving... you KNOW that's got to be crazy driving...

The hotel we're staying at is pretty bougierific... thanx mom =]... and there's this super cute german shepherd at the door who sniffs everyone's luggage for marijuana and crack cocaine!... and apparently bombs too.

Well, that's it for now. I'll be in Makati for 3 nights and then I'll be flying to Bohol. Hopefully I'll have some pictures up by tomorrow night! =]